D'Annae: A French, Swedish-Style-4-Pounder

This replica of the D'Annae is shown at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Manalapan, New Jersey. In 1777, the Continental Army was in desperate need of more field artillery. The French obliged the Colonists by sending 31 of these D'Annae to them. Eventually some of these 31 came to Monmouth Battlefield.
These D'Annae cannons require a large gun crew to move, load, point, and fire the gun, supply ammunition, and hold the horses. One of the gun crew was a female by the name of Molly Hays who carried the ammunition from the crew who filled haversacks with cartridges from the ammunition horses to the crew member who loads the cartridges. From this actual event came a 'Molly Pitcher' myth about a woman who was a water-carrier who took over firing canons after her husband had been killed.